History Major

SSH PEAK

Major Requirements

33 credits

Research Methods and Capstone (6-9 credits)

HIS-270	Writing History	3 credits
HIS-390	Research Paper	0 credits
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HIS-401	Seminar in Historical Methods	3 credits
-	or
HIS-480	Senior Thesis: Historiography	2 credits
-	and
HIS-481	Senior Thesis: Monograph	4 credits

History majors are required to complete HIS-390 prior to enrolling in HIS-401 .

Asia (3 credits)

Complete one course.

HIS-308	The War in Vietnam& America in 1960s	3 credits
HIS-340	Pre-Modern Chinese History	3 credits
HIS-345	Modern China	3 credits
HIS-358	People's Republic of China	3 credits
HIS-384	Modern Japan	3 credits

Europe (3 credits)

Complete one course.

HIS-339	National Socialism & the Final Solution	3 credits
HIS-347	18th-Century Europe: Empires and Modernity	3 credits
HIS-348	19th-Century Europe: Revolutions and Empires	3 credits
HIS-349	20th-Century Europe: Conflict and Unity	3 credits
HIS-350	Creating Russia: Extending Europe into Eurasia	3 credits
HIS-351	History of Science	3 credits
HIS-360	Britain, Empire, and World, 1639-1832	3 credits
HIS-361	Britain, Empire, and World, 1832-2010	3 credits
HIS-362	European Jewish History	3 credits

Latin America (3 credits)

Complete one course.

HIS-232	Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the Modern United States	3 credits
HIS-234	Twentieth-Century Mexico	3 credits
HIS-377	Women and Feminisms in Modern Latin America	3 credits
HIS-380	Colonial Latin America	3 credits
HIS-381	Indigenous Narratives about the Spanish Conquest	3 credits
HIS-385	Conquest and Encounters	3 credits
HIS-387	Cuba	3 credits
HIS-388	Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Latin America	3 credits

Mediterranean (3 credits)

Complete one course.

HIS-328	Mythology: Classical Hist and Archaeology	3 credits
HIS-331	Ancient Greece	3 credits
HIS-332	Ancient Rome	3 credits
HIS-333	Jews Under Islam	3 credits
HIS-364	The Life of Jesus: History and Archaeology	3 credits
HIS-376	History of Modern Israel/Palestine	3 credits

United States (3 credits)

Complete one course.

HIS-300	The United States Since 1945	3 credits
HIS-301	Vast Early America	3 credits
HIS-305	The Presence of the Past: Intro to Public Hist	3 credits
HIS-307	The American West	3 credits
HIS-310	Jewish History and Culture in the Americas	3 credits

History Electives (9-12 credits)

Complete 12 additional credits according to student interest. Students accepted for HIS-480 and HIS-481 must complete only 9 additional elective credits.

HIS-

Elective HIS Courses

12 credits

All history majors are strongly advised to study at least one foreign language. Knowledge of at least two foreign languages, including French or Spanish and area-specific languages depending on region of interest, are especially important for students who plan to attend graduate school in history. 

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this major, students:

1)  Will be able to compare human experiences from a variety of historical, cultural, and geographical frames of reference;

2)  Will be able to critically evaluate historical evidence by cultivating an awareness of bias, perspective, context, and reliability;

3)  Will understand the principles and practice of history as an interpretive discipline and the different ways in which historians have practiced their craft over time;

4)  Will be able to formulate and research historical questions in order to articulate historical arguments; and

5)  Will satisfy the Social Science PEAK outcome by being able to articulate the normative cultural, social, and political expressions of human experience, as well as the normative schema used by historians for interpreting, arranging, and narrating historical evidence.